Mind Quotes

"I think... if it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts."

Leo Tolstoy

"I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet."

Mahatma Gandhi

"I consider conversations with people to be mind exercises, but I don't want to pull a muscle, so I stretch a lot. That's why I'm constantly either rolling my eyes or yawning."

Jarod Kintz

"You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace."

Frank McCourt

"The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind."

Friedrich Nietzsche

"Stories you read when you're the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story was called. Sometimes you'll forget precisely what happened, but if a story touches you it will stay with you, haunting the places in your mind that you rarely ever visit."

Neil Gaiman

"The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled."

Plutarch

"A man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions."

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

"I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else."

G.K. Chesterton

"The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious but still a faithful interpreter - in the eye."

Charlotte Brontë

"You're mind is working at its best when you're being paranoid.You explore every avenue and possibility of your situationat high speed with total clarity."

Banksy

"People tend to be generous when sharing their nonsense, fear, and ignorance. And while they seem quite eager to feed you their negativity, please remember that sometimes the diet we need to be on is a spiritual and emotional one. Be cautious with what you feed your mind and soul. Fuel yourself with positivity and let that fuel propel you into positive action."

Steve Maraboli

"Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else."

George Orwell, 1984

"It's all in the mind."

George Harrison

"The boldness of his mind was sheathed in a scabbard of politeness."

Dumas Malone

"A man says a lot of things in summer he doesn't mean in winter."

Patricia Briggs

"My brain is divided into two butterflies, and both are in love with your rose-shaped heart. If you've got the garden, I've got my whole life."

Jarod Kintz

"When you make a choice, you change the future."

Deepak Chopra

"The mind can calculate, but the spirit yearns, and the heart knows what the heart knows"

Stephen King

"At that moment I had no mind to change, or not change, or throw against the nearest wall."

James Patterson

"As long as I am breathing, in my eyes, I am just beginning."

Criss Jami

"I drank so much booze I was bamboozled. Alcohol makes my mind as discombobulated as love makes my heart. I’d sure appreciate it if you poured me a large glass of romance."

Jarod Kintz

"I am the coffee, and God is The Barista. Through me, he may awaken your soul. But the coffee knows not what flows through the mind of The Barista."

Jarod Kintz

"I had a dream about you. You were storing my brain in a pickle jar in the fridge, and I only discovered it when I went to garnish my hamburger. Mindless and hungry, I was a US politician’s ideal voter."

Jarod Kintz

"The battle you are going through is not fueled by the words or actions of others; it is fueled by the mind that gives it importance."

Shannon L. Alder

"Looking at beauty in the world, is the first step of purifying the mind."

Amit Ray

"My heartbeat is a pulse, and it pumps out sonic vibrations that resonate with her mind as she lays her head on my chest. Listen silently and you can hear the frequency of love."

Jarod Kintz

"I can’t use my intellect to figure out how to bypass my intellect. Love lies through the spirit, not the mind, and love never lies."

Jarod Kintz

"The mind can go in a thousand directions, but on this beautiful path, I walk in peace. With each step, the wind blows. With each step, a flower blooms."

Hanh Nhat Thich

"I mean, I have the feeling that something in my mind is poisoning everything else."

Vladimir Nabokov

"Most people believe the mind to be a mirror, more or less accurately reflecting the world outside them, not realizing on the contrary that the mind is itself the principal element of creation."

Rabindranath Tagore

"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. In their gray visions they obtain glimpses of eternity, and thrill, in waking, to find that they have been upon the verge of the great secret. In snatches, they learn something of the wisdom which is of good, and more of the mere knowledge which is of evil."

Edgar Allan Poe

"It is the power of the mind to be unconquerable."

Seneca

"I do my best thinking at night when everyone else is sleeping. No interruptions. No noise. I like the feeling of being awake when no one else is."

Jennifer Niven

"A man's mind may be likened to a garden, which may be intelligently cultivated or allowed to run wild; but whether cultivated or neglected, it must, and will, bring forth. If no useful seeds are put into it, then an abundance of useless weed seeds will fall therein, and will continue to produce their kind."

James Allen

"To know a man's library is, in some measure, to know a man's mind."

Geraldine Brooks, March

"A tattoo is a true poetic creation, and is always more than meets the eye. As a tattoo is grounded on living skin, so its essence emotes a poignancy unique to the mortal human condition."

V. Vale

"Losing your mind is preferable to losing your woman, because if you lose your woman you will also lose your mind, and then you’re left with nothing."

Jarod Kintz

"A heart has problems which mind cannot understand."

Santosh Kalwar

"All problems are illusions of the mind."

Eckhart Tolle

"When I am king they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books, for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved."

Mark Twain

"Mathematics expresses values that reflect the cosmos, including orderliness, balance, harmony, logic, and abstract beauty."

Deepak Chopra

"Life is like a game of chess.To win you have to make a move.Knowing which move to make comes with IN-SIGHTand knowledge, and by learning the lessons that areacculated along the way.We become each and every piece within the game called life!"

Allan Rufus

"You can use your mouth to speak the words I love you, or you can use your mouth to kiss me and transport love from your mind to my heart."

Jarod Kintz

"I mined my mind, and I found no love. My heart is where excavation yields gold, and if you dig me as much as I dig you, we can both get rich."

Jarod Kintz

"To understand the immeasurable, the mind must be extraordinarily quiet, still."

Jiddu Krishnamurti

"Where to look if you've lost your mind?"

Bernard Malamud

"The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes within the souls of people when they realize their relationship, their oneness with the universe and all its powers, and when they realize at the center of the universe dwells the Great Spirit, and that its center is really everywhere, it is within each of us."

Black Elk

"Never worry alone. When anxiety grabs my mind, it is self-perpetuating. Worrisome thoughts reproduce faster than rabbits, so one of the most powerful ways to stop the spiral of worry is simply to disclose my worry to a friend... The simple act of reassurance from another human being [becomes] a tool of the Spirit to cast out fear -- because peace and fear are both contagious."

John Ortberg Jr.

"Pity me that the heart is slow to learnWhat the swift mind beholds at every turn."

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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